300prospect
05-06-2004, 01:25 AM
Greetings,
I am close to purchasing a new 300C after taking several test drives. Last weekend I discovered the ESP toggle and had a rousing experience indulging myself and the sales person with a feat of burning rubber and smoke. However, today I visited a different dealer and attempted the same only to be extremely disappointed -- with ESP disabled, in 1st gear on the auto stick, I could not get *any* burn. 300C just glided off the mark as if there was a huge lag or ramp-up after hitting the accelerator pedal.
The sales person mentioned the adaptive throttle response, something, I understand, which has been in many vehicles in the last ten years. The sales person said that this particular 300C had been driving my mostly elderly people since it came in the day before, 200 miles of old folkery puttering around corners.
Does this sound reasonable? The 300C I tried this last weekend which caused the special effects at the stoplight had about 30 miles on it.
On a secondary note, I went back to Chrysler's page today to and I saw that the price of a loaded 300C dropped about $200 -- it looks like UConnect and Sirius price tags have been drastically reduced. So, I continued to the so-callled "Payment Calculator" and noticed that it's a new piece of code that was just rolled out in the last day or two. It's clearly different. Along with this, it seems that lease payments have gone up *drastically* in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, I was ready to land INTO a nice $487 lease payment and today it's up to $699! What the hell happened?
Something is up because I fished the old URL out of my cache and went to its page and viewed the Javascript. Both pages have Javascript indicating the residual factor is 55% for a 36 month lease. That's kind of lousy... but I believe the new applet is computing the residual incorrectly. The values passed to the JavaScript applet are the same in each script...
FYI: The old payment calculator code is still on-line, feeding FROM the same DATA sources as the new one... the new one just has terrible lease rates compared to the one I've been looking at for weeks now...
I am close to purchasing a new 300C after taking several test drives. Last weekend I discovered the ESP toggle and had a rousing experience indulging myself and the sales person with a feat of burning rubber and smoke. However, today I visited a different dealer and attempted the same only to be extremely disappointed -- with ESP disabled, in 1st gear on the auto stick, I could not get *any* burn. 300C just glided off the mark as if there was a huge lag or ramp-up after hitting the accelerator pedal.
The sales person mentioned the adaptive throttle response, something, I understand, which has been in many vehicles in the last ten years. The sales person said that this particular 300C had been driving my mostly elderly people since it came in the day before, 200 miles of old folkery puttering around corners.
Does this sound reasonable? The 300C I tried this last weekend which caused the special effects at the stoplight had about 30 miles on it.
On a secondary note, I went back to Chrysler's page today to and I saw that the price of a loaded 300C dropped about $200 -- it looks like UConnect and Sirius price tags have been drastically reduced. So, I continued to the so-callled "Payment Calculator" and noticed that it's a new piece of code that was just rolled out in the last day or two. It's clearly different. Along with this, it seems that lease payments have gone up *drastically* in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, I was ready to land INTO a nice $487 lease payment and today it's up to $699! What the hell happened?
Something is up because I fished the old URL out of my cache and went to its page and viewed the Javascript. Both pages have Javascript indicating the residual factor is 55% for a 36 month lease. That's kind of lousy... but I believe the new applet is computing the residual incorrectly. The values passed to the JavaScript applet are the same in each script...
FYI: The old payment calculator code is still on-line, feeding FROM the same DATA sources as the new one... the new one just has terrible lease rates compared to the one I've been looking at for weeks now...